Kim Scott

Summary

Results oriented Sr. Management Leader with a distinguished career building organizations, developing management teams and significantly improving operational performance. Demonstrated exceptional leadership abilities with the capacity to build, train and turn around new or struggling businesses. Change agent with outstanding strategic vision, leadership, communication and organizational skills, which have proven to be critical assets in developing a positive work environment, managing people, and exceeding company goals. Unique blend of both technical and business. Expertise in telecom, end user applications applications, web, consumer products, and electrical distribution. More than 20 years of progressive leadership and management experience.

Work experience

Work experience

Achievements

·Board of Directors, Zwave Alliance

·Appointed Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Other Roles: Strategy and Product Launches

AT&T Bell Laboraties

·Prior year speculation yielded an underperforming portfolio.Crafted investment strategy that launched most promising applications and enabling platforms.Optimized mix of application vs. platform spending.Resulted in successful launch of a high reliability hardware platform, and several ATM applications within two years.

Technical Manager

AT&T Bell Laboratories

Responsibilities: Network Solution Architecture. Direct Reports:5

·Identified need to incorporate technologies from other industries to improve cost structure, and target new revenue opportunities.Faced with an organization reluctant to change, engaged the team in scenario planning exercises which opened minds and created sense of urgency and buy in.Results included 30% cost improvement.

·Inherited previous team’s failure after two years to launch next generation product. Developed and conducted strategy resulting in the creation of a new product currently generating over $130 million profitable revenue w/in three years of launch.

·Faced with the need to turn around a struggling product and also strained partnership. Revitalized the market programs and worked to earn the trust with the technology partner.Tripled revenue from $4 to $12 million in one year, and improved overall profitability.

·Product faced with service outages and customer complaints. Directed the team to create a reliability model creating a mechanism to roadmap the product plan and engage the customer.Reduced service outages by 25% and improved customer confidence.

2001 - 1999

Senior Manager, AnyPath Messaging Product Management & Marketing

Lucent Technologies

Responsibilities: Product Management, Marketing, Business Development and Vendor Management.Revenue: 12% of Organizations Sales. Direct Reports: 7 located in England, New Zealand, Illinois, New Jersey and California.

·Inheriting a hostile customer base and a dinosaur market image, challenged to revitalize market perception.Launched multiple strategy initiatives including brand and customer engagement strategy.After about 18 months we earned the trust, and credibility back that the previous team had lost and started to win market share.

·Due to budget and staffing constraints, product plans 50% over budget.Directed the team to create a list of outsourceable projects, and worked quickly to select, hire, and bring on board low cost contractors.Project was delivered on time, with quality.